animation, comics, exhibits, events, etc!

We’ve all been quite busy lately. Mr. Murray is working studiously in sunny Pennsylvania; Mr. Dorison recently got married and has his own (NSFW) comic; Mr. M resides far away from us in the precipituousness of Seattle, with a comic of his own; Ms. Babcock and I are both wrestling with the demons of not-too-far-off Ph.D.dom (and she her comic as well); Ms. Schnelbach is furious on her own work, novel, and future plans; and Mr. Gniewek is telling tall tales in other locales at the moment, as well as gearing up for a big move of his own.

Regardless, I feel the need to poke my head around here once more, albeit in a different capacity. Inspired by the illustrious Raina Telgemeier, of Smile, X-Men: Misfits, Comics Bakery, and All-Around Awesome Person, I’ve decided to revive the stagnant SAC Blog to prime myself for the joys of the fantabulous funitude of the “holiday” season. The Telgemeister¹ mentioned on some-or-another social networking site that she is the proud owner of many, many animated Christmas specials. As I do not believe I’ll be viewing many specials this year (due mainly to a drastic uptick in the ratio of work needed to finish my dissertation vs. time left to do so) I feel the need to at least talk about them.²

This being the Sequential Art Collective³, for the thirty days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I plan on expounding ridiculously on the animated Christmas specials of my childhood, highschoolhood, collegehood, and more-recenthood – some you may have enjoyed in the past, some you may have never heard of, some you may be downright terrified knowing you were in the same room as a computer with a hard drive containing them.⁴

Some of you, no doubt, don’t give a crap one way or the other. Eh, I say to you. Eh.

Whatever your religious background, political and socioeconomic ideals, or ability to metabolize glucose and lactose, the “Christmas season” is an extraordinary force in American lives come November 1. I intend to ENJOY it. At 12, 15, 24, 25, or 29.97 frames per second, depending on the source.

1 She should shoot me for using that name. I expect candy cane bullets in my jolly old heart when next we meet.

2 Yes, this is how damaged and OCD I am about Christmas specials.

3 As a side note, what’s more sequential arty and Christmasy than an Advent calendar? This is, that’s what. Shut up.

4 And looking worriedly at me next time you see me and anything resembling gingerbread in the general vicinity of one another. Gingerbread…….

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